Five Atlantis swimmers headed to the West Country this weekend to compete in the British Gas ASA South Zonal Championships, which was taking place at the purpose built 50m pool at the renowned sporting school of Millfield in the town of Street.

Two Atlantis swimmers grabbed National Qualifying Times at the South East Winter Regionals at the Aldershot Garrison 50m pool on Sunday. This was the high point of a weekend of racing for the Horsham Club.

Two of Sussex’s leading competitive swimming clubs - Atlantis SC Horsham and Shiverers SC based in Brighton and Hove - are announcing today a major new initiative to improve swimming in Sussex. The two clubs are forming a new combined swim squad to be known as the Sussex Seahawks Swim Team.

On Sunday, many swimmers from Atlantis headed south to Brighton for the County Development meet at The Prince Regent Swimming Pool. This was the second session of the meet, with the previous being a couple of weeks earlier.

11 Atlantis swimmers will be competing for their Horsham schools at the ESSA Secondary Schools Team Championships at the Quays in Southampton on Saturday 26th November. The Championships pit 16 teams from all over the country in three age groups - Junior, Intermediate and Senior - racing in 200m freestyle and medley relays.

Four Atlantis swimmers - Cameron Lambourne, Sam Carter, Issy Dunlop and Beth Britton - took part as part of the Sussex team in this year’s British Gas National Inter-counties National Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield on Sunday.

Horsham-based competitive swimming club opened its National Arena Swimming League (NASL) Division 1 East account in an exciting, knife-edge contest at the Medway Centre in Gillingham on Saturday night.

Crawley host this Junior B gala every year and its a great opportunity to give swimmers a chance to compete for Atlantis who mostly train outside of the top squads at Horsham , Steyning and Billingshurst and it gives our younger swimmers their first taste of competition .

Atlantis swimmers have new ambitions, targets and aspirations in mind, with the start of the 2011/12 season. Saturday saw some 35 Atlantis swimmers head down to Brighton for the first gala of the season.

Atlantis swimmer Kate Windle (11) made her presence felt competing in the British Gas ASA National Age Group Championships in Sheffield on Friday, making the finals in 200m breast. Kate - who qualified for the Championships at the South East Regional Championships in June - was competing in her first Nationals and was one of the youngest competitors in her age group, having just had her 11th birthday.

Kate Windle (10) continued her purple patch of form, achieving two national qualifying times (NQTs), during a series of fantastic performances on the second weekend of the South East Regional Age Group Championships at K2.

Atlantis swimmer Kate Windle (10) followed up her recent success at the English Schools Regional Championships with an outstanding individual performance at the first weekend of competition in the South East Regional Age Group Swimming Championships at K2.

A depleted Atlantis squad ventured east along to coast on Saturday evening to Hastings to perform in the first of three Sussex League Division 1 galas. The competition on the night was Brighton and 1066 from Bexhill.

Despite his GCSEs taking up a lot of time, Atlantis swimmer George Clarke represented Sussex Squids - a swimming club for people of all ages with disabilities - at a Gala at Felpham Leisure Centre last Saturday.

Young Atlantis swimmers Kate Windle (10) was part of the St Catherine’s Bramley winning team in the freestyle relay at the English Schools Swimming Association regional finals at K2 at the weekend. The team will now compete in the ESSA National Finals at Ponds Forge in Sheffield on 18th June.

Sunday 4th May saw Atlantis host their annual Spring Open meet at the Pavilions where clubs from all across the South East came. Atlantis were represented by 52 swimmers throughout the day , many new to competitive swimming and some attending their first ever meet.

With senior squad swimmers away training in Italy, 11 junior Atlantis swimmers competed last Sunday closer to home at the Littlehampton open meet. Some were chasing Regional Qualifying Times, others returning from injury and some just loving the competition!

Atlantis, Horsham’s successful competitive swimming club this week announced that Home Counties Pools and Hot Tubs of Horsham is to become the Club’s top Platinum sponsor. This is the first of what is expected to be a number of new sponsorship deals that the ambitious Horsham club will be announcing.

Atlantis Senior Girls’ Club Captain Katy Harris (17) capped a fine weekend for the Club on Sunday by winning the 100m backstroke Open Championship and being crowned an overall County Champion for the first time.

East Grinstead Swimming Club played hosts at Atlantis’ home pool for the Puffin Gala on Saturday. This swimming gala is aimed at less experienced swimmers and gives clubs the opportunity to introduce up and coming swimmers to the world of competitive team swimming.

Atlantis swimmers braved the snow blizzards on the weekend of 18th/19th December to compete in two Open Meets - at Hillingdon and Haslemere - as Arctic conditions returned to the UK. In defiance of the freezing weather, the swimmers turned in some sizzling performances.

Atlantis enjoyed a successful outing over the weekend at K2 to near neighbour Crawley SC’s ‘Not So Early Bird‘Level 1 Long Course meet, with three swimmers notching up early season national qualifying times.

Remembrance Sunday was a busy day for the up and coming swimmers of Atlantis SC. After a superbly well observed 2 minute silence at the Prince Regent Swimming Pool in Brighton the racing was underway in earnest

Atlantis Junior Girls Club Captain and Farlington School pupil Issy Dunlop (15) competed on Saturday in the English Schools Swimming Association Inter-Divisional Championships at the Woodside Sports Centre in Watford.

For many of Atlantis’ senior swimmers this was their first individual competitive gala of the season. A 25-strong squad led by Team Manager Andy Lobley and coach Matt Cumber, made the short trip to the Surrey hills and the leafy Herons Leisure Centre.

The season has now begun in earnest for Atlantis swimming club. Over the Halloween weekend 30 of the Club’s younger swimmers were in action at the Prince Regent Pool in Brighton for the first County Development Meet of the season.

Atlantis Junior Boys’ Captain Cameron Lambourne put his recent injury woes behind him to record a stunning short-course personal best of 53.93 secs in the 100m freestyle at the National Inter-county Championships at Ponds Forge Sheffield on Sunday.

It only seemed like yesterday that Atlantis SC closed their doors for a well earned rest at the beginning of August. After only two weeks of light training the club was back in action last Sunday at the Sussex County Relays held in Brighton.

Three Atlantis swimmers will by flying the flag for Horsham’s competitive swimming club Atlantis at the British Gas ASA National Youth Championships at the Ponds Forge 50m pool in Sheffield on 3rd - 7th August.

Horsham’s competitive swimming club Atlantis has finished runners-up in a nail-biting conclusion to the Sussex League. This is the Club’s highest ever finish in the competition and is a further indication of the Club’s continuing and steady march forward.

Atlantis swimmer Bex Lobley stormed to a bronze medal and two national qualifying times at the British Gas Scottish National Swimming Championships at the 50m Pool on the edge of the leafy Tollcross Park in the East End of Glasgow, in a hugely successful foray north of the border last week.

The first of four days intensive competition for the South East Regional Age Group Championships, spread over two weekends, started last Saturday and once again Atlantis Junior Club Captain Cameron Lambourne led by example winning Gold in the boys 100M freestyle.

Sunday 25th April started in glorious sunshine as a large contingent of Atlantis SC headed down to the coast to take part in the Last Chance Regional Qualifier hosted by Littlehampton SC at the Arun Leisure Centre in Bognor Regis.

Over the weekend at the Portsmouth Easter Swimming Festival in the new 50m pool at the Mountbatten Centre, Atlantis Junior Girls’ Club Captain Issy Dunlop (15) secured her first qualifying time for the National Youth Championships.

Atlantis and Tanbridge House School swimmer, Cameron Lambourne, headed north at the weekend, as part of a 40-strong England squad taking part in the Home Nations Schools Swimming International at the Toll Cross 50m pool in Glasgow.

Atlantis bagged an impressive 40 medals on the first major weekend of the Sussex County Swimming Championships at K2. With another 3 days of competition still to go, the club is on course to better last year’s performance of 57 medals in total.

Following the monthly Atlantis Committee meeting last night, I am delighted to be able to announce that Cameron Lambourne has been appointed our new Boys’ Junior Club Captain in succession to Howard Blyth.

Atlantis and Tanbridge School swimmer Cameron Lambourne received a fantastic start to the Christmas festivities when a letter from the English Schools’ Swimming Association (ESSA) dropped through his letter-box on Christmas Eve.

Atlantis finished the National Arena Swimming League season on the up. The Horsham-based club came a very close second to home team Woking in the third and final NASL gala at the Pool in the Park on Saturday night, confirming a sustained improvement in performance over the three galas.

Atlantis swimmers enjoyed themselves at their own annual Christmas Cracker Open meet at the Pavilions on Sunday, emerging as the top team with 2490 points – 250 points clear of Shiverers SC, who took the Top Club Trophy for visiting clubs for the second year in a row. Atlantis swimmers won an incredible 58 medals – 23 golds, 17 silver and 18 bronze.

Atlantis, Horsham’s competitive swimming club, today announced a new link-up with Home Counties Pools. Home Counties, which has been based at Hillier’s Garden Centre just south of Horsham since 1983, is sponsoring the club’s Christmas Cracker Meet on 6th December.

At the end of a stormy November day, the atmosphere inside the Pavilions pool on Saturday night was electric as Atlantis took on Dover Lifeguards, Orpington Ojays, Beckenham B, Braintree and Bocking and local rivals East Grinstead in the second gala of the National Arena Swimming League South (NASLS), Division One East series

Atlantis, Horsham’s competitive swimming club, has received support from Southern Water in advance of its critical National Arena Swimming League Division 1 Gala against three of the division’s current top four teams – East Grinstead, Dover Lifeguards and the Orpington Ojays. The gala on Saturday is being held at Atlantis’ home base at the Pavilions in Horsham and is the second in a series of three galas.

Four Atlantis swimmers under the guidance of Chief Coach Bill Penny competed over the weekend at the two-day South East Region Open and Junior Winter Swimming Championships at the Aldershot Garrison Pool.

The first day of the 2009 Sussex County Development Meet was held at the Prince Regent Pool in Brighton on Sunday 1st November. Atlantis was represented by a team of over 20 of its most promising younger swimmers.

Atlantis swimmers felt right at home for Cranleigh Swimming Club’s Level 3 Licensed Meet on Sunday 4th October. The meet was being held at Atlantis’ Pavilions in the Park home base in Horsham due to the current closure of the Cranleigh pool. Atlantis swimmers took over 30 medals for 1st, 2nd or 3rd places.

As part of its continuing development as a competitive swimming club, Atlantis Horsham is introducing regular long course training for its more experienced swimmers who are aiming to compete at regional and national level.

Atlantis swimmer Cameron Lambourne – Cam to his family and friends – swam out of his skin to take silver behind Jack Smith of the Plymouth Leander Club in the final of the boys 13 yrs 100m freestyle in the National Swimming Championships in Sheffield last Thursday night.